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Kwame Christian (USA)

Kwame Christian is an internationally recognised expert in negotiation and conflict resolution, founder and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, and named one of the world's Top 10 negotiation experts by Global Gurus. Over the course of his career, Kwame has advised teams at organisations such as Google, Apple, NASA, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Honda, General Motors and the U.S. Department of Defense. He also partnered with LinkedIn to create the Negotiation Professional Certificate programme, which more than 60,000 professionals have already completed. Kwame is one of the best-known negotiation educators online. His more than 50 LinkedIn Learning courses have reached over 2.5 million learners, and his long-running podcast Negotiate Anything became one of the most popular negotiation podcasts in the world – its more than 1,800 episodes have been listened to in over 180 countries, with total downloads exceeding 16 million. He is the author of the bestsellers Finding Confidence in Conflict and How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race, and his TEDx talk on finding confidence in conflict has been viewed more than 650,000 times. Kwame also writes for Forbes and CNBC on negotiation, conflict and difficult conversations. In his work, Kwame focuses on one of the most important skills a negotiator can have: the ability to act constructively when a conversation gets difficult. His approach combines negotiation strategy, psychology and curiosity – turning conflict from a threat into an opportunity to better understand the other side and achieve results.